China Reports Its Biggest Heroin Seizure

Updated Feb. 5, 2002 10:17 a.m. ET

Twelve people from Hong Kong have been detained after China's biggest heroin seizure on record, police said Tuesday, highlighting the growing role of Hong Kong traffickers in the Chinese drug trade. The Hong Kong suspects were among 21 picked up after police seized nearly 1,500 pounds of heroin in November in the southwestern province of Yunnan, said Sun Dahong, deputy director of the provincial police. The heroin was found in a joint raid by Chinese and Myanmar police, the biggest seizure since a deal for cooperation against drug trafficking was signed in August by China and Laos, Thailand and Myanmar -- the three...